My hot take: The way of the future is local
LLMs.
The AI equivalent of the PC revolution isn’t quite here yet, but it’s the only way forward.
The AI equivalent of the PC revolution isn’t quite here yet, but it’s the only way forward.
There are privacy and general de-centralization reasons to prefer this outcome, even though most AI and cloud-first tech companies don't want this.
How long it will take us to get this point is a different matter.
Yet startups keep trying it and failing. Turns out users actually want exclusive access to that hardware to have a smooth experience. The tradeoff has always been between faster exclusive hardware or slower but cheaper shared hardware.
If local hardware can’t beat shared hardware on performance then something’s wrong? Either it’s because the providers are charging wildly below cost or because local hardware just hasn’t needed to catch up. Maybe it’s both.